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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 537

537.(1) Where a receiver suspects or receives information that any wreck is
secreted or in the possession of some person, who is not the owner thereof or
that any wreck is otherwise improperly dealt with he may apply to any justice
of the peace for a search warrant and that justice shall have power to grant
such a warrant, and the receiver, by virtue thereof, may enter any house, or
other place, wherever situate, and also any vessel, and search for, seize, and
detain any such wreck there found.

(2) If any such seizure of wreck is made in consequence of information given
by any person to the receiver, on a warrant being issued under this section,
the informer shall be entitled, by way of salvage, to such sum not exceeding
in any case five pounds as the receiver may allow.

Interfering with wrecked vessel or wreck.

© 1894 Crown Copyright

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